I do have such audio equipment, differences are especially noticeable in bass and treble, they're much clearer. I also teach guitar here and there and I tend to notice people who listens to CDs usually have a better memory of music and note recognition than those only having mp3 or low quality audio equipments. They're so used to the little distortions and artifacts created by compression that they think it is what music really sounds like.
I know what freedom means, and dont tell me free speech, we dont have free speech anywhere. You cant say a list of words on any major media, you can say what you want most of the time but people will just call you dumb without even trying to think about what you said. What we have is mob speech, people saying what others are saying, and dumbing down anyone not going along with the mob.
Without author's rights, people can't create economies of scarcity.
Exactly, and how many of these forged scarcities do you think exists as of now?
I for myself dont believe in intellectual property, patents, scarcity, or copyrights. I dont care who invented what, as long as it works, and if someone else wants to try and improve the design, i can only be thankful for it.
What I do hope to see before I die is an open society, where money has no value whatsoever, control is delegated without any real power at any level, and where everyone can contribute anywhere and get documentation about everything.
Open source software is already developped that way (minus monetary contributions and donations, which are merely 'hacks' to let this model live in our current system) and its quite a productive and successful model. Most of the internet is powered off by such software now. Just try and imagine if every resource on this planet was managed in such a way, we'd be exploring outer space within 15 years, we have the manpower and resources to, just not the system for it.
what i mean is, even though you can download mp3s for free, on any kind of decent speakers you can notice the difference with CDs. Even though you can download movies in xvid or divx with ac3, you can notice a difference with DVDs or BR.
Same applies to content, if you're the original publisher, people will come back to you for more of that content, as you will always have it first.
When will money-hungry people get a clue and realise more protection wont save your content from being copied. You dont lose money if your content is copied, as most people will still pay if they feel its worth the price for they want original quality content. Its not like we're stealing a car, because the content is still yours. You cant complain about losing viewers either, as if your content was good enough in the first place, people would stay with you, and your extra protection schemes just make a lot of people go to other sources for equivalent free content.
Information is meant to be free, if you think money is incentive for creating it, then what about the entire open source community and millions of free webpages? Why do these companies need big marketing and protection to get their content through, cant they let the product speak on its own?
The more control you try to get, and the less you end up with. I bet this new security wrapper will be hacked in minutes.
Personally I blame the government itself. Who needs a secret president hideout when you can just pick the next guy in line to do the same job, its still gonna be the same corporate people making the decisions anyways.
Exactly, its the people who keep information for themselves who are the thieves.
We all praise our society for its freedoms but the only free things we have are the choices between hundreds of meaningless entertainments and foods. I for one welcome our pirate friends who free more and more informations every day.
If i learned how to code through leaked sources, maybe someone will protect the president out of this leaked information.
Indeed, ive jumped into quite a few projects replacing a previous programmer. Some were experienced and reading their code was really interesting, others were fired for being incompetent and I ended up rewriting most of their code.
In any cases, the first few days, weeks or months depending on the size of the code are spent studying the structure rather than actually coding.
Oh great, another ignorant person against history. History is where we can learn from the mistakes of others so we dont repeat them. Why do you think most successful people know most of the history within their domain? History also allows us to put things into perspective and respect what has come before us, as well as thinking about whats coming next.
P.S. Global warming is a fraud, there is no such thing. It would happen with or without human action, the whole solar system is heating up, our magnetic shield is weakening as if getting ready for a pole shift. This whole global warming propaganda is just a way to keep people in line while having them think they're doing the good thing so they dont question it and reject those who do.
I thought the government WAS a private lobby, the millitary a way for private banks to make more money off war and debt, the media their public relations and the masses of entertainments a way to keep us too busy to notice how badly we're getting raped by the other institutions.. I must've misread a memo or something.
You make it sound like america is a trip into an amusement park where no matter what happens, you lose.
Id much rather live outside and have the circus come to my local town, so I can ignore it and stay home doing useful stuff, like downloading movies and music while coding my way through world domination. When you live in america, you tend to forget you live at the circus and it becomes reality, then you begin to think paris hilton has talent and american idol is a really great show.
Of course, the harder you try to make something secure, the harder people will try to get past it, either for recreational or criminal purposes.
Make no rules, and you wont have to worry about violations. But we're humans, thats against our natural need for control and order.
Either way, I dont see how bad it would be if we're outsmarted, heck, machines already work harder, need less pay, and never complain.. just like illegal immigrants.
Please, we have enough resources for every human on this planet to have its own free 3000Mhz computer and free internet and whatnot. But its more profitable for a handful of people to have the remaining billions pay for such things.
Better than the alternatives? If capitalism is the best we can come up with, I am not impressed. And democracy in its current state is a joke, it doesnt represent we the people, we havent had real political choices since I cant remember when. Every political party share the same long term goals, they just have different methods of getting there, how is that democracy?
I'm pretty sure anything even slightly controversial will be edited off the tapes before they're released. I wouldn't trust NASA to release any information other than random discoveries.
Or the game is trying to be more serious than it needs to be. Why is it that during the NES and SNES days good games were easy to come by, they had the worst graphics yet the best gameplay experiences. Today it seems most of the budget goes to impress the gamer to get them hooked on their pathetic excuse of a game.
same here, although after seeing this im tempted to download even more music.. if only today's music didnt suck so much. Maybe without the RIAA and other corporations only in the music industry for profits, we'd get better songs which are actually worth buying.
I agree, this whole Intellectual Property concept has gone too far, it's more about money than about ideas these days, and that is a very sad thing cause its us customers who end up paying the big price in the end. Here are our freedoms, filled with so many cheesy products that we spend most of our time filtering through them to find a gem, that's not freedom to me, feels more like being a dog who's thrown the remains of a dinner table having to sort through it all to find meat.
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I do have such audio equipment, differences are especially noticeable in bass and treble, they're much clearer. I also teach guitar here and there and I tend to notice people who listens to CDs usually have a better memory of music and note recognition than those only having mp3 or low quality audio equipments. They're so used to the little distortions and artifacts created by compression that they think it is what music really sounds like.
I know what freedom means, and dont tell me free speech, we dont have free speech anywhere. You cant say a list of words on any major media, you can say what you want most of the time but people will just call you dumb without even trying to think about what you said. What we have is mob speech, people saying what others are saying, and dumbing down anyone not going along with the mob.
Without author's rights, people can't create economies of scarcity.
Exactly, and how many of these forged scarcities do you think exists as of now?
I for myself dont believe in intellectual property, patents, scarcity, or copyrights. I dont care who invented what, as long as it works, and if someone else wants to try and improve the design, i can only be thankful for it.
What I do hope to see before I die is an open society, where money has no value whatsoever, control is delegated without any real power at any level, and where everyone can contribute anywhere and get documentation about everything.
Open source software is already developped that way (minus monetary contributions and donations, which are merely 'hacks' to let this model live in our current system) and its quite a productive and successful model. Most of the internet is powered off by such software now. Just try and imagine if every resource on this planet was managed in such a way, we'd be exploring outer space within 15 years, we have the manpower and resources to, just not the system for it.
I may be a dreamer, but I'm not the only one!
what i mean is, even though you can download mp3s for free, on any kind of decent speakers you can notice the difference with CDs. Even though you can download movies in xvid or divx with ac3, you can notice a difference with DVDs or BR.
Same applies to content, if you're the original publisher, people will come back to you for more of that content, as you will always have it first.
It was successful in pissing the hell out of me.
They already monitor and record phone conversations, emails, IMs and pretty much every means of communication, yet tracking cookies arent used?
What kind of a backwards government is this, I want my vote back.
When will money-hungry people get a clue and realise more protection wont save your content from being copied. You dont lose money if your content is copied, as most people will still pay if they feel its worth the price for they want original quality content. Its not like we're stealing a car, because the content is still yours. You cant complain about losing viewers either, as if your content was good enough in the first place, people would stay with you, and your extra protection schemes just make a lot of people go to other sources for equivalent free content.
Information is meant to be free, if you think money is incentive for creating it, then what about the entire open source community and millions of free webpages? Why do these companies need big marketing and protection to get their content through, cant they let the product speak on its own?
The more control you try to get, and the less you end up with. I bet this new security wrapper will be hacked in minutes.
Personally I blame the government itself. Who needs a secret president hideout when you can just pick the next guy in line to do the same job, its still gonna be the same corporate people making the decisions anyways.
Exactly, its the people who keep information for themselves who are the thieves.
We all praise our society for its freedoms but the only free things we have are the choices between hundreds of meaningless entertainments and foods.
I for one welcome our pirate friends who free more and more informations every day.
If i learned how to code through leaked sources, maybe someone will protect the president out of this leaked information.
Indeed, ive jumped into quite a few projects replacing a previous programmer. Some were experienced and reading their code was really interesting, others were fired for being incompetent and I ended up rewriting most of their code.
In any cases, the first few days, weeks or months depending on the size of the code are spent studying the structure rather than actually coding.
Oh great, another ignorant person against history. History is where we can learn from the mistakes of others so we dont repeat them. Why do you think most successful people know most of the history within their domain? History also allows us to put things into perspective and respect what has come before us, as well as thinking about whats coming next.
P.S. Global warming is a fraud, there is no such thing. It would happen with or without human action, the whole solar system is heating up, our magnetic shield is weakening as if getting ready for a pole shift. This whole global warming propaganda is just a way to keep people in line while having them think they're doing the good thing so they dont question it and reject those who do.
I thought the government WAS a private lobby, the millitary a way for private banks to make more money off war and debt, the media their public relations and the masses of entertainments a way to keep us too busy to notice how badly we're getting raped by the other institutions.. I must've misread a memo or something.
You make it sound like america is a trip into an amusement park where no matter what happens, you lose.
Id much rather live outside and have the circus come to my local town, so I can ignore it and stay home doing useful stuff, like downloading movies and music while coding my way through world domination.
When you live in america, you tend to forget you live at the circus and it becomes reality, then you begin to think paris hilton has talent and american idol is a really great show.
But then more poor swedes college students will be sued.
Of course, the harder you try to make something secure, the harder people will try to get past it, either for recreational or criminal purposes.
Make no rules, and you wont have to worry about violations. But we're humans, thats against our natural need for control and order.
Either way, I dont see how bad it would be if we're outsmarted, heck, machines already work harder, need less pay, and never complain.. just like illegal immigrants.
Please, we have enough resources for every human on this planet to have its own free 3000Mhz computer and free internet and whatnot. But its more profitable for a handful of people to have the remaining billions pay for such things.
Better than the alternatives? If capitalism is the best we can come up with, I am not impressed. And democracy in its current state is a joke, it doesnt represent we the people, we havent had real political choices since I cant remember when. Every political party share the same long term goals, they just have different methods of getting there, how is that democracy?
Just like XP was a service pack for 2000 (XP is 5.1), nothing new here, same old Microsoft.
I'm pretty sure anything even slightly controversial will be edited off the tapes before they're released. I wouldn't trust NASA to release any information other than random discoveries.
we've developed a whole industry based on an incomplete model
Wait you mean this is the first time this happens? I thought schools were the first to do that.
Or the game is trying to be more serious than it needs to be. Why is it that during the NES and SNES days good games were easy to come by, they had the worst graphics yet the best gameplay experiences. Today it seems most of the budget goes to impress the gamer to get them hooked on their pathetic excuse of a game.
same here, although after seeing this im tempted to download even more music.. if only today's music didnt suck so much. Maybe without the RIAA and other corporations only in the music industry for profits, we'd get better songs which are actually worth buying.
it just repeats what other people have said
I don't see anything new here, most people have done this since the beginning of time.
I agree, this whole Intellectual Property concept has gone too far, it's more about money than about ideas these days, and that is a very sad thing cause its us customers who end up paying the big price in the end. Here are our freedoms, filled with so many cheesy products that we spend most of our time filtering through them to find a gem, that's not freedom to me, feels more like being a dog who's thrown the remains of a dinner table having to sort through it all to find meat.
On a more positive note, I since IP doesn't really mean original concept, nothing prevents Blizzard from having a WoW2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw8gE3lnpLQ
Because 90% of what the government already does is to help big corporations?